Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Please raise your petition number to at least ten times that number. I can't help but feel that Nancy Smolling has not yet caught the true spirit of TIME. It has always appealed to the more spiritual side of my being and I forget the more superficial things like Style when I think of TIME and besides I think it would be a selfish column because the men subscribers certainly would not enjoy it and I feel so very keenly that TIME is for all who are interested in people and events and not just in themselves...
French Senator Henry de Jouvenel, recently turned "traitor" to the League of Nations, as many internationalists profess, declared that the Spirit of Locarno was not enough to secure the peace of Europe. In voicing such expression he was speaking for the French Nationalists (the Poincareists) whose suspicion of Germany is deeprooted...
...applied to Mexico it means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism, as that term is usually conceived-I want none of it. If it be conceived in a spirit of responsibility to high American ideals and standards, I want...
What type of feminine English fiction reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town...
...Thee." But Mr. Wright assures the reader that "there was not a feature of that service which would not have been endorsed by all churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact?and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched way. . . . There was no effusive and perfunctory handshaking by an ap- pointed committee at the door . . . the people went out from the house...